Shakti (Shakti: The Divine Feminine)

This painting stages a quiet confrontation between the human and the primal: a stylized visage floats within a geometric web, as if consciousness is being measured, mapped, and held in ritual balance. The lotus—offered with tender precision—becomes a fragile counterweight to the lion’s steady stare, suggesting purity and devotion tempered by instinct and sovereignty. Across the surface, scripture-like fields and diagrammatic marks dissolve into scraped color, turning the background into a palimpsest where memory, belief, and time are repeatedly overwritten. The heat of orange and the mossy greens pulse against one another, creating a devotional atmosphere that feels both celebratory and unsettled, as though the sacred is always negotiated rather than attained.